Medical kespibatok



UNITED sTATEs PATENT oEEioE.

E. M. MURPHY, OF LEXINGTON, ILLINOIS.

MEDICAL RESPIRATOR.

`Specification of Letters Patent No. 16,066, dated November 11, 1856.

To all wiz-0m it may concern:

Be it known that I, EDWIN M. MURPHY, of Lexington, in the county ofMcLean and State of Illinois, have invented a new and useful Improvementin Medical Inhalers; and I do hereby declare that'trhe ollowing is afull, clear, and exact description of the construction and operation ofthe same, reference being had to the annexed drawings, making a part ofthis specification, in whichj Figure l is a top view, Fig. 2 is a sidesection, and Fig. 3 end view.

In Fig. l C is an opening. In Fig. 2, A is a self acting six leaved fan.C is an opening, B is the opening through which the powdered medicine isintroduced into the inhaler. In Fig. 3 the opening C is shown again.

To enable others skilled in the art to make and use my invention I willproceed to describe the construction and operation of the saine.

The irst thing is the box which is to be lnade of wood or anyanticorroding metal, the inside of which should be circulartransversely, the outside to be square or circular with the sidesparallel planes inside of the box as shown in Fig. 2 is placed the sixleaved fan A, the axles O penetrate the sides on which it rests.

D, is the oval hollow mouth piece which is firmly attached to the bodyof the box, in the manner shown in the drawing Figs. l and 2.

In using this inhaler the medicine is rs reduced to a powder andintroduced through the opening B in the side into the interior of thebox under the fan A, then introduce the oval mouth piece into the mouth,permitting the concave under side E to rest firmly on the tongue, closethe lips tightly and place the thumb over the opening B'then the act ofinhaling the air thro-ugh the opening O see Fig. 2, revolves the fan Awhich fans up the powder in a cloud and is inhaled directly into thelungs.

W'hat I claim and desire to secure by Letters Patent is- The combinationwith the usual medical inhaler of a fan, A, to be revolved by the act ofinhalation in the manner and for the purposes substantially asspecified.

EDI/VIN M. MURPHY.

Vitnesses J. W. MAHON, R. N. B. OWEN.

